Cationic liposomes for gene transfer
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US · United States
- Patent Type
- Patents(United States)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- VANDERBILT UNIV
- Publication Date
- 2006-02-21
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
Description
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a divisional of and claims the benefit of, U.S. application Ser. No. 09 / 447,688, filed Nov. 23, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,656,498. U.S. application Ser. No. 09 / 447,688 claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Nos. 60 / 109,950, filed Nov. 25, 1998 and 60 / 110,970, filed Dec. 4, 1998. U.S. Application Nos. 09 / 447,688, 60 / 109,950, and 60 / 110,970 are each incorporated herein by this reference in their entireties.STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST
[0002] This invention was made with government support under Grant Nos. NIH 5 P50 HL 19153, NIH 5 RO1 HL 45151 and NIH 5 RO1 AI 31900 awarded by the National Institutes of Health to Vanderbilt University. The U.S. Government has certain rights in the invention.FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0003] This invention relates to synthetic cationic lipid compounds, liposome formulations and the use of such compounds via lipofection to introduce functional bioactive agents / biologically active s...